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Mirapoint pursues mobile e-mail integration
By Kevin Fitchard
Jun 18, 2007 1:04 PM
Enterprise messaging provider Mirapoint is going mobile, kicking its off entry into the wireless space with a partnership with Nokia. Mirapoint will support Nokia’s Intellisync Mobile Suite but intends to partner up with other mobile e-mail platform providers in the near future.
Mirapoint’s hardware and software solution functions much like Microsoft Exchange, providing secure e-mail, calendar and contacts across external and internal networks—although Mirapoint tends to focus on specific verticals such as education.
Mirapoint has an open-source mobile e-mail solution in the market, but it decided to work with other vendor solutions because open-standards platforms for e-mail-based on IMAP or SynchML have yet to take off, said Adrian Hall, director of technical marketing for Mirapoint. “What we were expecting was a critical mass of open-standards-based devices,” Hall said. “That has yet to happen.
Slowly the vendors are moving that way, but until it happens, our full intent is to support as many different kinds of environments as possible.”